Container.



C. F. MADIGAN. I

CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-23,1914.

Lm fi fio Patented Apr. 10, 1917.

WITH/E885 A TTOR/VEY and then be built up or assembled wherever desired to be used for the purpose of ship-.

CORNELIUS 1F. MADIGALN, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters li'atent.

Patented Apr. no, new.

Application filed March 23, 1914. Serial No. 826,621.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, CORNELIUS F. MADIGAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Containers, of which the following is a specification.

This. invention relates to containers and has for its object to provide an improved container for the purpose of safely conveying breakable articles, as bottles, eggs, and the like,,,and to provide at the same time very simple means which may be manufactured at a low cost and be readily shipped from'place to place in collapsed condition ping such breakable articles from place to place.

For this purpose the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing and will be described more fully hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of my invention specially adapted to the use of bottles,

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on line 22 of Fig. 1, N

Fig. 3 is a view of one of the web members adapted to receive a bottle,

Fig. 4: is a perspective view of interlocking web members speciallyadapted for conveying an egg,

Fig. 5 represents a front elevation of one ofthe web members shown in Fig. 4,

Fig. 6 represents an elevation of a fragment of the other web member of Fig. 4.,

which exterior notches are adapted to engage interior notches of the web member of Fig. 5.

. peripheral configuration of a bottle to be in- Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the difilerent figures of the drawing.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 web members or webs 10 and 11 are interlocked at right angles to each other and inclosed in an outer casing 414=24:34 1 in diagonal relation thereto. The web 10 is provided with a cen-" tral cutout or opening 12 corresponding to the closed and the web 11 is also provided with a central opening or cutout 20 also corresponding to the shape of the bottle, and dis posed on the axis of intersection of said webs. These-openings register with each other and form a skeleton receptacle on said axis into which thebottle fits. The web 10 is provided at its upper end on its inner edge with a notch or slot 14 and at its lower end on its inner edge with a notch or slot 15. The web 11 is provided'atits upper end at its outer edge with a notch or slot 18'and at its lower end at its outer edge with a notch or slot 19. The webs 1O andll when assembled in operative position as shown in Figs.

preferably crossing at right angles. The up per outer .edge of the web 10 passes through the slot 18 at the upper outer edge of the web 11 and theupper inner edge of the web 11 passes throughthe slot 14. at the upper v inner edge of the web 10. The lower outer edge of the web 10 passes through the slot 19 at the lower outer edge of the web 11 and the lower inner edge of the web 11 passes through the slot 15 at the upper inner edge of the web 10. The webs are flexible, being constructed 0 pasteboard or other suitable material which permits the bending to facilitate assemblage shape of an egg may also be shown. In Figs. 1 and 2 the bottle is shown in dotted showing one of its exterior locking notches,

lines, indicated by 40. The provision of other shapes is clearly shown in Figs. 1, 5 and 6, in which the web 25 is provided with an opening 26 having extensions 27 and the web 28 is also provided with a similar opening 29 having extensions 30.- The web 28 is provided at its upper end at its outer edge with a notch or slot 31 and at its lower .1 and 2 are in angular relation to each other,

end with a notch or slot 32, and the web 25 V is provided at its upper end on its inner edge'with a notch or slot 38 and at its lower end on its inner edge with a notch or slot 39,

whereby the interlocking of the webs 28 and 25 maybe conveniently carried out. The extensions 27 or 30 respectively serve to hold the egg in suspended position so as to ust -in Fig. 5, where an egg is shown in dotted lines, as indicated by 35, which is held by the t1ps 36 of the fingers 27. The slots 38 and 39 coeperate with the slots 31 and 32 of the web 28.

assembled in operative position are in angular relation preferably crossing each other at right angles, the upper outer edge of the web passing through the slot 31 of the web 28 and the upper inner edge of the web 28 pass: ing through the slot 38' at the upper mner edge of the web 25 and the lower edge of the web 25 passing through the slot 32 at the lower edge of the web 28 and the lower inner edge of the web 28- passing through the lower inner slot 39 of the web 25.

as broken away in that figure, the said'box d having a diameter equal to the length of .each web, so that these webs form diametrical walls to the box, while the bottom of the box, as indicated by 41, contacts with the edges of the webs, and similarly the top,

' which, however, is not shown; whereas the side-walls of the box, indicated by 42, 43,

44 and 45, extend along the two side-edges of the webs 10 and 11, as clearly indicated in Fig. -1. This box and'the walls thereof surround the interlocking webs, and also the supported article, as a bottle, egg, or the like. Similarly the webs 25 and 28 are also i urroimded by a box' like that shown in It will be noted that the webs shown in Fi 4to 6 are not provided with the cut 16. The is for the reason that these webs are of pliablepaper and readily yield under pressure, whereby one web may be readily Y doubled up-and inserted through the opening of the other and then rmitted to expand, and thereby the inter ocking brought about. This is gssible up to a certain heavi- .ness of materi but when the material becomes heavier, "and especially the heavier cardboard, in that case the material would crack when it isbent, and in such .case one of the side-portions of the webs is provided with a cut, as that shown by 16 in Fi 1 as shown, or by threads or the like.

and Fig.. 3, and these two parts are joined together either by metallic clasg 17,

ever, it is quite clear that the cut-outgrtions, and this part also, may be varied -the embodiments shown without departing from the invention.

It will also be noted particularly that by suspending the bottle or-egg or other arcasing webs disposed at right anglesto each other ticle in the webs as shown, and arranging these in an outside box, whenever the articles are conveyed from place to place they are suspended in position by these webs and by the box. Containers provided with m invention have been found especially a vantageous in connection with the parcels post, The webs or web members 25 and 28 when whose operatives are not at all careful in the transportation of articles intrusted to them and who seem to find s ecial and joyful recreation in the barbaric treatment of packages containing eggs. However, with my invention I have found that eggs and very delicate glass articles, as for instance, incandescent bulbs, may be conveyed and transported simply. and safely,'and that articlesso packed can withstand a great deal of shock without the least injury.

Among theadvantages of my invention are that the container may be manufactured in great quantities, may be shipped in collapsed form, and may be readily assembled wherever needed.

Of course it is very clear that besides bot-' 'tles, eggs, incandescent bulbs, many other evices may be conveyed, as for instance, globes for arc-lamps, surgical appliances as test-tubes, thermometers, glass goods therefor, and the like, and many similar devices, all of which require at the present time very extensive and expensive pacln'ng.

I have shown several embodiments of my invention, but changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

I' claim: g

1. A container comprising flexible webs interlocking in angular relation and r0- vided respectively with cutouts dispose on the axis of intersection of said webs and joint? forming a skeleton receptacle corre spon mg to the peripheral contour of the article to be inclosed.

2. A' container comprising flexible webs interlocking in angular relation and rovided respectively with cutouts disp on the axis of intersection of said webs and jointl forming a skeleton receptacle correspond ing t0 the peripheral contour ,of the article to be inclosed, and a casing inclomng said interlocked webs.

3. A container comprisin and separable flexi le interlocking diagonally of said casing and provided with cutouts disposed on the axis ofintersection.

of said webs and jointly forming a skeeton receptacle corresponding to the perlpheral contour of the article to be inclosed. 4

4. A container comprising a rectangular webs dis osed at right angles to each other diagona of said casing and provided w th cutouts disposed on the axis of intersectlon of saidwebs and jointly forming a skeleton a rectangular I '12s casing and separable flexible interlocking naaaaac the article to be inclosed, said webs beingarranged angularly to each other with the axes of the two webs substantially coincident with the axes of the cutouts, and means -holding said two webs in fixed angular position to each other.

6. A container comprising webs each having a cutout corresponding to the shape of the article to be inclosed and said webs being arranged angularly. to each other in separable interlocking relationship, with the axes of the webs substantially coincident with the axes of the cutouts, and means holding said webs in fixed angular position to each other.

7. A container comprising webs (each having a cutout corresponding to the entire outline shape of the article-t0 be inclosed, said webs being arranged in angular relation, the axes thereof being substantially coincident with the axes of the cutouts, said webs interengaging in angular relationship to each other when supporting an article and being collapsed flat upon each other when not supporting an article.

In testimony, that I claimthe foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CORNELIUS l5. MADIGAN. Witnesses:

F. Hoes, Jos. BISBANO. 

